HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The residents of western Herat province and the Butchers Union say if the smuggling of livestock to neighbouring Iran is not prevented, meat prices will surge further.
Abdul QadirRahimzada, head of the Butchers Union, told Pajhwok Afghan News that a few months earlier, the price of one kilogram of hovered between 350 and 380 afs in the market but currently the price has jumped to 450afs.
He said according to their information, 4,000 to 5,000 animals are daily smuggled to Iran under the pretext of being transferred to Kabul.
He said even residents of foreign . . .
